A black-and-white promotional portrait photo by Stephanie Parsley showing electronic music producer Mersiv viewed through a stylized fisheye lens aperture. Looking directly forward with long dark hair, the artist reaches one hand toward the camera frame with an open palm against a black-and-white optical illusion background of concentric hypnotic rings.
Mersiv Credit: Stephanie Parsley / MP3 Labs

Thanks to the commodification of everything, it’s pretty easy to get jaded on live music and the festival scene, too. Mersiv hopes to provide some levity.

Born Anderson Benoit Gallegos, the 33-year-old producer has spent the last decade refining his now-signature deep, heavy, and emotional bass music. A forthcoming LP, Nostalgia, promises more of the guitar he used to try and play as a kid, but not before staging a first-of-its-kind MorFlow Fest, blending bass music and the flow arts (think glovers, hoopers, poi bois and girls, even shufflers).

“It’s a full-spectrum cultural experience rooted in movement, intention, and community,” a press release says. U.K. bass icon Caspa is also on the bill along with Wreckno x Super Future, plus a B2B set with Seth David and Zen Selekta, and more.

Tickets to see Mersiv, Caspa, Wreckno, Super Future, and more at The BayCare Sound in Clearwater on Saturday, Sept. 12 are still available and start at $53.


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Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...